Kavak

Kavak is a Mexico-founded digital marketplace for buying, selling, and financing pre-owned cars across Latin America, the Middle East, and Turkey. Founded in 2016 in Mexico City by Carlos Garcia Ottati, Loreanne Garcia Ottati, and Roger Laughlin, Kavak became Mexico's first unicorn in 2020 and reached an $8.7B valuation in 2021 with backing from SoftBank, Sea Ltd, and Founders Fund. The company operates an end-to-end consumer platform that combines an e-commerce site and mobile app, physical hubs, in-house vehicle reconditioning, and a financial-services arm (Kavak Capital, Kuna, and Kavak Credito). Internally, Kavak uses machine learning and proprietary pricing models to value, inspect, and route inventory across markets including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, while sponsoring high-profile partners such as the NFL. Kavak's revenue comes from vehicle sales, financing margins, and after-sales services, and the company does not currently publish a public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI specification, or open-source GitHub organization. Customer-facing integrations are limited to the consumer web and mobile apps and partner financing channels.

Kavak is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Automotive, Used Cars, Marketplace, E-Commerce, and Mobile Commerce.

Kavak’s developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 14 more developer resources.

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7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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AutomotiveUsed CarsMarketplaceE-CommerceMobile CommerceConsumerFinancingAuto LoansFintechLatin AmericaMexicoMiddle EastUnicorn

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Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Instagram

Instagram

Facebook

Facebook

Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Mexico

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

UAE

Turkey

SellYourCar

Financing

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: kavak
name: Kavak
description: Kavak is a Mexico-founded digital marketplace for buying, selling, and financing pre-owned cars across Latin
  America, the Middle East, and Turkey. Founded in 2016 in Mexico City by Carlos Garcia Ottati, Loreanne Garcia Ottati, and
  Roger Laughlin, Kavak became Mexico's first unicorn in 2020 and reached an $8.7B valuation in 2021 with backing from SoftBank,
  Sea Ltd, and Founders Fund. The company operates an end-to-end consumer platform that combines an e-commerce site and mobile
  app, physical hubs, in-house vehicle reconditioning, and a financial-services arm (Kavak Capital, Kuna, and Kavak Credito).
  Internally, Kavak uses machine learning and proprietary pricing models to value, inspect, and route inventory across markets
  including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, while sponsoring high-profile partners
  such as the NFL. Kavak's revenue comes from vehicle sales, financing margins, and after-sales services, and the company
  does not currently publish a public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI specification, or open-source GitHub organization. Customer-facing
  integrations are limited to the consumer web and mobile apps and partner financing channels.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kavak.png
tags:
- Automotive
- Used Cars
- Marketplace
- E-Commerce
- Mobile Commerce
- Consumer
- Financing
- Auto Loans
- Fintech
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Unicorn
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kavak/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kavak-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kavak.com
- type: Mexico
  url: https://www.kavak.com/mx
- type: Argentina
  url: https://www.kavak.com/ar
- type: Brazil
  url: https://www.kavak.com.br
- type: Chile
  url: https://www.kavak.com/cl
- type: UAE
  url: https://www.kavak.com/ae
- type: Turkey
  url: https://www.kavak.com/tr
- type: SellYourCar
  url: https://www.kavak.com/mx/vender
- type: Financing
  url: https://www.kavak.com/mx/credito
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kavak.com/mx/blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kavak.com
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/kavak_mx
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/kavak_mx
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@KavakMx
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/Kavak.mx
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com